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...Picture of Dorian Gray (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Most literary classics and near-classics translate rather stodgily to the screen, no matter how faithful the adaptation. Oscar Wilde's famed and fancy morality legend is an exception. Its epigrams speak even more sharply than they read, and its dramatic essence is vividly visual. But though Writer-Director Albert Lewin, who also did The Moon and Sixpence (TIME, Oct. 19, 1942) deserves respect for a notably hard try, and though his Picture has some elegance, interest and excitement, it falls far short of what it should have been...
...franc room in the Scribe Hotel, breakfasted for 20 francs, spent the morning running to & fro in Paris with Dave Scherman taking pictures for TIME & LIFE. Velo taxis- 1000 francs. He lunched for 20 francs at the Scribe (no wine), spent 2 francs getting to the office on the metro, took a member of France...
...Metro and Paramount are the most frequent employers of Technicolor. Universal's dabblings, in this case at any rate, descend to color per so. In black-and-white, "Can't Help Singing" would be nothing. Even with Color, music by Jerome Kern, and stiff, conventional acting by Deanna Durbin and Robert Paige, it represents the lowest in a painfully low series...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's screen presentation of Lieutenant Ted Lawson's bestseller, "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo," is a sincere and restrained record of heroism in this war. Director Mervyn LeRoy wisely lets the dramatic quality of Major General Doolittle's remarkable feat develop naturally, unmarred by overdone Hollywood heroics...
...probably the most drawn-&-quartered property in cinema. His contracts call for one film a year for Fox, one for M.G.M., two each, over a four-year period, for Casey Robinson, Selznick and RKO. He has already finished Selznick's Spellbound with Bergman, directed by Hitchcock, and Metro's Valley of Decision, with Garson, directed by Garnett...